socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Santa Monica- and Irvine-based Onica , a provider of IT services focused on cloud-based platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), has raised $20M in a funding round, the company announced this week. The company--formerly known as CorpInfo--said the funding came from Sunstone Partners. Onica is led by CEO Stephen Garden. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? Jim should know, since he is the president of Ignite Social Media , one of the best known social media marketing agencies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? Jim should know, since he is the president Ignite Social Media , of one of the best known social media marketing agencies.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

The platform allows investors to do their due diligence on their own time, network with other investors and execute deals with little overhead.” The platform carefully vets every company applicant and only presents less than 2% of opportunities to its investor base. ” Over 650 accredited investors and over 450 companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2013

On Friday October 25th, this innovative spirit was put on display at the 2013 Student Innovator Showcase. It’s not about the money for us,” said Cosmo Scharf of Coursewiz , a college course-scheduling platform. “We Grief Center Market Traction Award ($2500): BriskRabbit. Students Choice Award ($600): Trail.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Analytics and optimization startup, FlxOne , aims to deliver insights and actions for real-time advertising by use of cloud-based infrastructure and data crunching to deliver insights and actions, making it the first platform to optimize performance automatically. The Internet ad revenues surged to a landmark $20.1 billion, up from $8.7

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 7, 2019

The company is one of a growing number of startups trying to rejuvenate the music streaming market by combining it with social networking so that audiences can listen to the playlists of their favorite athletes and entertainers… and their friends. million seed to get the app out into the market. “He was jamming.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2021, from 280 to 360 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 4, 2018

market with the help of several Los Angeles-based investors. Freeletics , headquartered in Munich, Germany, is today announcing its first round of private capital after bootstrapping since 2013. One of Europe’s most popular fitness applications is poised to flourish in the U.S.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Invoca , the developer of call tracking software for the lead generation market, said this week that it has seen what it says is record growth in enterprise customers. The company did not disclose any finances, but said it has seen its enterprise customers grow by 375 percent since 2013.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Isn’t it frustrating to think you understand something new in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? Jim should know, since he is the president Ignite Social Media , of one of the best known social media marketing agencies.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

One that he particularly struggled with was "word-of-mouth marketing,”which he consistently referred to as "mouth-to-mouth marketing." We adopted his phrasing and made it our mission to devise creative, mouth-to-mouth marketing initiatives. I now realize why guerrilla marketing is not for the timid. we sure do.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 26, 2013

Originally intended as an experiment in personal connections, Facebook has turned into a powerhouse platform that can be leveraged by just about any industry you can think of. From gaming, to advertising, to branding and marketing, there’s no online business plan that Facebook can’t be used for at this point. It’s All in the Numbers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

The biggest trend in the last twelve months is the rapid consolidation of major technology platforms across the board (social, cloud, mobile, video, communications, e-book, etc.) What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013? toward one or two major dominate players.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

Our platform enables them to manage the digital representation of their locations, and engage with consumers in paid, social, and search, to improve that customer experience. Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. How did you get involved with MomentFeed?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

A booming American economy coupled with failing infrastructure and a low-margin business reluctant to adopt new technologies have put stress on domestic logistics companies in the $900 billion market for U.S. When Leaky shut down and its business was acquired by Navion in 2013, Traff moved to Austin to figure out his next move.I

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

Attention Marketers - The Medium Has Changed, So Should The Message. As Facebook''s mobile ad revenue attests, marketers are stepping up their "phone based" spending. In order for them to take full advantage of Facebook the phone company, they will have to abandon traditional online marketing conventions. But Why Now?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I first met Andrew Stalbow , the founder & CEO of Seriously in August of 2013. On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros). Tech Market Analysis Upfront Ventures'

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The combination of Search and Social is redefining the way marketers are allocating their ad budgets. Although Search and Social both matter, Experian Marketing Services recently pointed out that 2013 saw a significant drop in the number of users who accessed social sites from search. Search Meets Social = Commerce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? Jim should know, since he is the president of Ignite Social Media , one of the best known social media marketing agencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. The point isn’t to “build a business on YouTube” but rather to use YouTube as a marketing platform to build a video business that works across many platforms. I think most arguments miss the mark.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

In contrast, companies that are rapidly growing often rebrand in order to more accurately reflect the expanded scope of their target market and product set. Unfortunately, the market was as excited by the new devices as they were about the company''s revised name. percent of the domestic market in 2006 but watched that slip to 8.4

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

We started in October of 2013, and last year, in December, we closed our Series B with Sequoia Capital with $21M. We viewed this as a central marketplace which would allow drivers to be put in the driving seat, get paid what they want, go where they want to go, and get paid the market price, and would help solve this issue.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Jon Kraft: One of the things we''re doing, is a lot of testing, early--not just the product, but testing the market. He does a ton of iterative testing, approaches to marketing, to find the kinds of deals that work. Jon Kraft: We raised an angel round of financing back in July of 2013, and we''re still working against that round.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our big news as a company was deciding to "transform" Transform Group itself - moving from the top PR firm in the blockchain world to a blockchain company that has a division that now has represented 31 percent of the entire market cap of the nearly $600 billion crypto landscape (excluding bitcoin). Aside from $50,000 bitcoin?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The platform connects foodies to restaurants for a win-win situation for both parties. The platform uses an iPhone app and website to help users make decisions quickly and confidently while also helping them share their valuable restaurant experiences with others. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? Jim should know, since he is the president Ignite Social Media , of one of the best known social media marketing agencies.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

They've solved it at the enterprise paint point, where we are at the mid-market. Our product was built specifically for the mid market, and we've been riding the wave of IT budgets, which are starting to open up, and companies are really quickly signing up because this is a big pain point, from their perspective.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 31, 2014

million round into Kareo, the doctor’s cloud-based platform. “Given the company’s track record of rapid growth and market leadership, we jumped at the opportunity to deepen our partnership with Dan and his management team.” With over $2.5 OpenView Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank also participated in the round.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We knew there would be a need in the commercial market, and prepared for it by building a viable, commercial-off-the-shelf product. We ended up positioning ourselves around 2008 to start developing and marketing the product. We released our software to the general public in August of 2013. What''s the background of your team?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs. easy sharing (through social networks or platforms like YouTube). think Apple.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2013

Scott Morrow is an Internet and startup veteran, having run such companies as Oversee.net and ThisNext, and headed up product marketing for IAC/Citysearch. When I first came on board, we were not very sophisticated with our search engine marketing. We grew our SEM and improved our ROI. DE, Italy, and have similar plans with Asia.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 1, 2014

Adam is the very mind behind many of the business developments and the growth of Indiegogo into one of the most premier crowdfunding platforms. Since then, he has been an integral part of Indiegogo’s history; expanding the brand into new markets and creating the name into one of the biggest crowdfunding platforms in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

Brendon McQueen: The idea behind the platform, is that over 70 percent of college graduates today have college loans. We launched the site to the public in 2013. Brendon McQueen: We just saw the kind of impact this platform could have on the larger, studen tloan crisis. What was the idea that behind the company? billion dollars.

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